Friday, July 14, 2017

The Waitaki District Council has abandoned plans to use sand mattresses for erosion protection at Oamaru’s waterfront after a "one-in-seven year storm" changed the beach.

Council acting chief executive Neil Jorgensen says rock armouring would be used instead of the mattresses because the slope of the beach had changed.

The work is being done to protect 240 metres of waterfront, between Oamaru Creek and Holmes Wharf, in front of the Oamaru Creek penguin colony.

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